--On Saturday, January 04, 2003 21:04:32 -0400 "Marc G. Fournier"
<scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org> writes:
>> > On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> >> There is a long tradition of systematically failing to tag releases in
>> >> this project. Don't expect it to improve.
>>
>> > It was I who suggested that a release team would be a good idea.
>>
>> We *have* a release team. Your problem is that Marc, who is the man who
>> would need to do this, doesn't appear to consider it an important thing
>> to do. Try to convince him to put it on his checklist.
>
> I never considered tag'ng for minor releases as having any importance,
> since the tarball's themselves provide the 'tag' ... branches give us the
> ability to back-patch, but tag's don't provide us anything ... do they?
>
> That said, I can back-tag the whole source tree for past releases if ppl
> do think it is important, its just a matter of knowing the 'timestamp' to
> base it on, which I can do based on the dates of the tar files ...
It's useful for those using the CVS files to RECREATE a version based on
the TAG
to checkout something (without pulling the whole tarball).
LER
>
> Its not like tag'ng is hard to do ...
>
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